Team for tonight

Rest key players Gally, JPC (Joe Poppadom-Costello), Ronnie Pickering & Wharton with the quick turn around before the Leeds game

Rest assured Eusless will revert to boring and stick with the same as Saturday with Markanday in for Hedges OR even go a defensive 3–4-3 and bring Carter in as a 3rd CB

Love Adam Wharton and think he’ll be in the England Squad by the end of 2024, he’s unique in that position in terms of keeping the ball & playing forward passes. Every inch the Lancashire Pirlo and twice the player of the Yorkshire version who got a move to City.

Needs to keep working on the defensive side of his game though, KDB made him look distinctly average for both his goals.

1 hour ago, Upside Down said:

It's up to the fans to demand better from the club and they aren't doing that.

The fact that shadow man gets to walk from the Blackburn End car park to the Jack Walker every week unmolested shows what an easy ride these people get.

And for the record I found it just as easy to boycott the club when I lived within a couple of miles of the ground. 

 

What are you actually doing? Apart from whingeing on an internet forum 

As it’s Good Friday, who fancies handcuffing themselves to the goal frame dressed as Jesus?

Saving Blackburn Rovers from the Venky’s and Steve Maggott’s sins for the greater good of football 😆

Reading fans to stage protest at England match over football’s ‘negligent’ owners

Great work by Reading fans again 👏

“We want to remind fans that while it’s Reading that are in trouble today, it could be someone else tomorrow. We need the new independent regulator for English football to have the necessary powers to safeguard clubs and solve systemic issues. The world is watching – collective responsibility is needed to ensure we have a regulator with real teeth.

The future of football depends on it.”

Good to hear actual communication of what’s gone on…even though again it’s unofficial and under the radar for the majority of fans & the wider media.

Broughton comes across in this interview like a politician and that constant smirk on his face makes him look like a complete bullshitter. To be adamant that the vision is STILL for us to become a sustainable Premier League club is just baffling with what’s gone on this season and the budget cuts. It’s almost impossible to do that by selling your best players and cutting the wage budget year on year.

I think he’s trying to do the best job he can but ultimately has no authority on transfers. For me, given this is his first job as a Director of Football, he seems completely out of his depth working for cowboys like Waggott and Venky’s. His team have obviously done a lot of work on the McGuire deal to then have it all wasted by some convenient “human error” to stop us spending any money. There were no such errors getting crocks and carthorses Fleck & McFazdean through the door!

Seems to me GB will just say whatever he can to deflect and make himself look good in order to keep his job and gain experience as a DoF. It’ll be the same with Eustace as he’s very inexperienced too.

Not making JDT into a martyr as his record in his final few months at the club was abysmal, but he’s the only person we’ve seen be honest & not hide behind this constant bullshit and spin. He called out the situation for what it was and that made his position untenable. He knew that he’d walk into another job regardless, as we’ve seen.

Fed up of all this nonsense and wish the club would just communicate directly with the fans and be honest with us. It’s absolutely appalling the way they are treating us and I don’t foresee it getting any better anytime soon. 

7 hours ago, martonrover said:

I know the omens aren’t great, but it’s too soon to write Eustace off as a failure.

The task of keeping us up may well prove to beyond him, but it would be a struggle for any head coach under our circumstances.

We are an absolute mess.

No excuse culture.

Stop making excuses for him. No wins, that’s the only stat that matters. 

Are they still here?

Is Broughton on gardening leave? Will anyone at the club communicate what is going on? Does Steve Waggott shop at Lidl?

Get these cretins out of our club! Another chance to protest on Sky v Ipswich on Good Friday.

50 minutes ago, martonrover said:

I read a tweet  from a supporter last week which stated we can’t expect to be in the Championship with our attendances.

The meek acceptance makes you sick. 

Exactly! We need to remember who the fuck we are. 

Was chatting with a colleague & fellow Rovers fan yesterday reminiscing about some of our best games watching us.

This club has won the Premier League, played in the Champions League & UEFA Cup, won the League Cup, 2 FA Cup Semi Finals, mixed it with and beaten all the big boys in the Premier League. My best game is beating Man Utd 4-3 at Ewood.

Yet some fans mention us in the same breath as Rochdale or Bury. 
 

JDT brought the hope, the ambition, the potential back. Now we’re making do with a budget Tony Pulis with his shit baseball cap on, taking us straight down to League One. Get the cretins out!

4 hours ago, MarkBRFC said:

Unless your child is 12 or over, then it's £10.

Exactly, my daughter is 12 a couple days before! Why’s it not under 16?

Get the kids in, you also get the parents who then spend on food & merch, it’s really not rocket science.

Anyone know Swags email address?

Surely we need to reduce the ticket prices v Southampton and I want to email him with the suggestion. Or can someone bring it up at the Fans Forum?

Kids for a Quid v Ipswich is great on Good Friday but we need to do more. It should be £10 for adults (£5 in Riverside) & kids for free all over the ground v Southampton.

Middle of the Easter Hols, no better time to do it! Get the ground full with a better atmosphere & help us get a result.

24 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

So what the answer then? 

Play to the strengths of Szmodics, keep the ball on the floor & play through the midfield with the quality on the ball of Buckley Ayari & Siggy.

Worked perfectly v Plymouth until we kept gifting them possession by kicking it long which allowed them back into the game. Then they totally dominated, before and after the red card. Forshaw in the middle the park was particularly strong. They outplayed, out thought & outfought us.

Eustace needs to play to win. All I’m seeing so far is safety first football with the handbrake firmly on. Maybe that’s his plan, to grind out draws and scrape a win here and there to stay up. It’s not the kind of football I want to watch us playing though and if we carry on as we are, even more fans will be turned away.

I believe we do have the quality in the squad to play a better brand of football so hopefully with a full week of training before the Boro game he can do something different. The jury is out on that from what I’ve seen so far.

                   Pears

Brittain  Hyam  Wharton  Pickering

            Tronstad  Buckley

Dolan             Ayari          Hedges

                   Szmodics 

Play to WIN, keep the ball on the floor & to the strengths of the most lethal goalscorer in the Championship. Very very simple. COYB 🌹 

9 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

the Villa game was 2 weeks later and Hughes had 2 full weeks with the squad on the training field. 

Conveniently ignoring a League Cup Tie & a League match in between. Like I said, deluded. 

To be fair, you can see the difference under Eustace, it’s just a massively sh*t one!

9 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Rubbish. Did we not scoring a goal from not kicking long to Gallagher or at Preston? 

When we have a goal kick and fine kick it long up to Gallagher or whoever and get the defence up the pitch

We have scored going long yes but it didn’t work yesterday. We either lost possession directly or the Ghost kicked it straight out of play on 5 occasions. 

If Gallagher plays as a central number 10 with Szmodics running in behind, as for the first goal against Preston, it may work. But now it’s 5 at the back, even at home, with Gallagher out wide, which we already know he can’t do. This continued when Hedges came on & we kept gifting it back to Plymouth. It was purely by good fortune they weren’t able to create a 2nd goal and for me they throughly deserved to win that game.

9 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

The Players rolled their sleeves yesterday and got us a point after playing with 10 men for 40 mins. Yes we would all like 3 points but given the game changing circumstances with the red card

Toxic positivity…aka quoting the club propaganda. Steve Kean…is that you?!

1 minute ago, RoversTilliDie said:

If it wasn't for a very soft red card decision, Rovers would have took the 3pts. What have referees got against Blackburn Rovers, they always seem to side with the visitors. One good thing Sam Szchmodics on target again. I can't believe Tyrys Dolan was on the bench, he's one of our best players this season.

Are you employed by Steve Waggott?

We were outplayed, out thought and out fought for 90 mins.

Dolan tries hard but is a headless chicken, just like the cretins ruining our once great football club.

Get. Them. Out! 🥀 🐔 

6 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

Why was McFadz clapped off for a daft red 

Anyone reading into Sammy doing his own lap of honour solo then going down the tunnels solo 

He clapped the fans solo at the start of the game too.

He’s the only player in that squad with any professional pride for me.

Uninspiring at best.

Eusless at worst.

13 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Waggott will be at the fans forum on the 11th March

Can anyone go to the Fans Forum?

Asking for a friend 

2 minutes ago, booth said:

He's an attacking mid isn't he?

He’s the top goalscorer in the Championship & has all the attributes of a brilliant striker, as described in my earlier post above.

The point is, we need to play to his strengths.

12 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Its 6 points in 6 games since JDT left

Still shite though

Also the new Rovers Armed Forces Veterans Team could’ve probably beat Stoke that day.

Eustace has a lot to prove, very uninspiring so far in the Championship. However, solid performances & at least 4 points from Millwall & Plymouth games will change that completely.

20 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

It will be interesting if he is fit. 

Not a fan of Wharton has the central centre back or Szmodics as false 9. I think we need more attacking and get our best players on the pitch

I would go with my team would gives us balance and width to get balls into the box plus Buckley and Ayari can direct our tempo of the game. 

Szmodics isn’t a false 9, he’s a striker with 25 goals this season in all comps. Scored a variety of goals including headers, poachers goals and running in behind.

We need to play to his strengths, not the 6ft4 donkey Gallagher who for all his strong running and defensive headers, doesn’t score goals & lacks the technical ability or a first touch to hold the ball up and bring others into play.

Wharton is a better option than McFazdean as he can play football.

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

This is a must win game. 

My team would be 

                    Pears 

Brittain Hyam Wharton Chrisene 

  Dolan  Ayari  Buckley  Hedges 

                  Szmodics 

                  Gallagher 

Subs:- Wahlstedt O'Riordan McFadzean Pickering Tronstad Moran Sigurdsson Markanday Telalovic 

 

442 do me a favour Chaddy lad 😩

                    Pears

       Hyam Wharton Chrisene

Brittain                          Pickering

            Buckley    Ayari

Dolan                        Sigurdsson

                 Szmodics 

Defensive solid with 5 across the back when defending but legs to get forward when attacking.

McFazdean & Gallagher OUT as they simply aren’t good enough footballers. Replaced with better quality on the ball in Chrisene & Siggy. Siggy, despite his limitations, does have genuine quality to hurt the opposition in the attacking 3rd of the pitch. Which is what we need to WIN games. Pragmatic draws are no longer good enough. Let’s go out to hurt Millwall with good football, not play them at their own dirty game. 

COYB! 🌹